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   nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) wrote in   
   > news:Dt6dnZHiu5Vk4hv0nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   >   
   > >> Poem   
   > >>   
   > >> Anyway the time has come to explain   
   > >> the Golden Eternity   
   > >> and how the iridescent paraphernalia of radiating candles   
   > >> ceases   
   > >> when mentation ceases   
   > >> because I know what it's like to die,   
   > >> to cease mentating, one day I died,   
   > >> I fainted actually, I was stooping smelling   
   > >> strapping flowers in the cosmos yard   
   > >> of my mother's cozy flower house   
   > >> in Auffinsham Shire, in Queens,   
   > >> and stood up fast taking deep breath,   
   > >> blood rushed from head, next thing I knew   
   > >> woke up flat on my back in grassy sun   
   > >> and had been out fine minutes.   
   > >>   
   > >> And I had seen the Golden Eternity.   
   > >> The Lamb was alone with the Lamb.   
   > >> The Babe was alone with the Baby Lamb.   
   > >> The Shroud was alone with the Golden Shroud.   
   > >>   
   > >> I was alone with God, who   
   > >> is God, who was me,   
   > >> who was All,   
   > >> he stood high on a hill   
   > >> overlooking Mexico City   
   > >> radiating messages   
   > >> out of a white Tiot   
   > >>   
   > >> - Jack Kerouac, 1958   
   > >   
   > > Great poetry from the one and only Jack Kerouac.   
   > > [/quote]   
   > >   
   > > There are at least 26 people living in the United States right now who   
   > > have the name "Jack Kerouac."   
      
   That's amazing, I never looked it up.   
      
   Thanks for that bit of trivia.   
      
   --   
   Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:   
   https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)